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Me gustaria que me documentasen sobre el SO o donde me puedo
documentar ya que soy un ususario novel en este SO y si lo puedo
instalar en una maquina con microprocesador AMD 64 Turion, a la espera
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PyGTK not building for the correct unicode version on Python2.3

[Peter]

Hello,

I attempted to install pygtk via apt-get install python2.3-gtk2.
However, when i type:

import pygtk
pygtk.require(2.0)
import gtk

It gives me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 1, in ?
  File /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py, line 
33, in ?import gobject as _gobject

  File /usr/lib/python2.3/ihooks.py, line 398, in import_module
q, tail = self.find_head_package(parent, str(name))
  File /usr/lib/python2.3/ihooks.py, line 439, in find_head_package
q = self.import_it(head, qname, parent)
  File /usr/lib/python2.3/ihooks.py, line 489, in import_it
m = self.loader.load_module(fqname, stuff)
  File /usr/lib/python2.3/ihooks.py, line 268, in load_module
m = self.hooks.load_dynamic(name, filename, file)
  File ltihooks.py, line 50, in load_dynamic
return ihooks.Hooks.load_dynamic(self, name, filename, file)
  File /usr/lib/python2.3/ihooks.py, line 172, in load_dynamic
return imp.load_dynamic(name, filename, file)
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject.so: 
undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsUnicode


I have gotten similer errors like this before on Debian - FREQUENTLY.

I re-installed Python with ucs2 unicode support, and that did not fix it.
I wouldn't expect that it would.

I have attempted to install pygtk from source, however, it does not 
create a gtk directory in gtk-2.0, as it should.


Is there any way to get arround this?
If not, why is the source build (gotten from apt-get source 
python2.3-gtk2, though i also tryed googling for pygtk 2.6, and i found 
a tar.gz of 2.6.0, not creating a gtk directory when i build it like this?:


./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.3 --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Btw, i am using Debian sarge (3.1).

Thanks,
Peter


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Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

[Peter]

Jon Dowland jmtd at debian.org writes:

 
 On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:42:57PM +0200, Aioanei Rares
 wrote:
  A more practical approach : what should the average user
  do in order to get his/her Debian back after this GRUB
  bug?
 
 Stick to stable in future, that's what.

This happened to me with someone's machine.  I don't quite recall how I did it,
but I booted into the command line, then did apt-get remove grub, apt-get
install lilo, and everything was just find afterwards.  Lilo is a bit ugly, but
it works fine.

Now, how did I manage to get to the command line?  There is a live CD available,
grub restore or something similar.  Think this was it.  It was not able to
restore grub to functioning but one of the options in there someplace is to boot
an existing system.  I think that was what got me to the command line on the
system that grub had blown up on.

Once you can boot from it, you can fix it by taking out grub and putting in 
lilo.




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Re: logrotate: extension `date +.%m-%d-%Y`

[peter]

Hi,

This works for me, when you have to rotate a lot of different logs, writing a simple 
script isnt as easy as getting logrotate to handle it all for you.

lastaction 
DATE=`date +%F`; mv /var/log/messages.1.gz /var/log/messages-$DATE.gz 
endscript

this is of cource asuming that you are compressing the logs and the extension is left 
as default, ie when logrotate runs it will always create a *.1 file then compress it. 
*.1.gz

It may need a little tweeking to get it working for you.

Hope this helps


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GOOD NEWS issue 013

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Help with tpconfig

[peter]

Greetings,
I am new to Linux. I have just installed Sarge on my Toshiba note book
A15-S157.
I would like to disable touch pad clicking. From what I can tell so
far, I can do this by using tpconfig. I have installed this package from
Debian. From what I have read, I should run this program at startup.
Could someone provide me with an example of what I sould run, where I
should run it. I am not familiar with startup  scripts yet so I will
need some help. Thanks.
Peter
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apt issues with gcc?

[Peter]

Hi,

Am i the only person experiencing issues with apt?  I get some errors and
the upgrade aborts.  It seems to have issues with gcc.  I have tested it on
2 boxes.

I just joined the list, sorry if somebody else already reported this.

I am using woody/testing.

Greetings from Belgium,
Peter


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RE: apt issues with gcc?

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spider:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  classpath expect imagemagick libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libldap2
libtomcat4-java libxerces2-java netpbm sendmail
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.

**
** above I have removed gcc.. lets see what happens if I remove it: **
**

spider:~# apt-get clean
spider:~# apt-get install gcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gcc-3.3
Suggested packages:
  manpages-dev autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-3.3-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc gcc-3.3
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 1613kB of archives.
After unpacking 4252kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ftp.belnet.be testing/main gcc-3.3 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.1 [1608kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.belnet.be testing/main gcc 4:3.3.4-2 [4904B]
Fetched 1613kB in 9s (178kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gcc-3.3.
(Reading database ... 51758 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gcc-3.3 (from .../gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/gcc-3.3-base/changelog.Debian.gz',
which is also in package gcc-3.3-base
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously deselected package gcc.
Unpacking gcc (from .../gcc_4%3a3.3.4-2_i386.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

**
** so this doesn't look good... lets remove it again... **
**

spider:~# apt-get remove gcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gcc
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 28.7kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 51772 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gcc ...
spider:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  classpath expect imagemagick libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libldap2
libtomcat4-java libxerces2-java netpbm sendmail
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
spider:~#

**
** and now it is clean again... but no gcc :( **
**

Have been using Debian for quite some time now. Why did I not subscribe to
this list before? Well because I never experienced any problems.  So great
stuff Debian crew! I am sure this is either something that canwill be fixed
in no-time, or a stupid misconfig on my behalf :)

Peter


| -Original Message-
| From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: zondag 29 augustus 2004 1:51
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: apt issues with gcc?
| 
| Hi,
| 
| Am i the only person experiencing issues with apt?  I get some errors and
| the upgrade aborts.  It seems to have issues with gcc.  I have tested it
| on
| 2 boxes.
| 
| I just joined the list, sorry if somebody else already reported this.
| 
| I am using woody/testing.
| 
| Greetings from Belgium,
| Peter
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issue 011

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arrrgh

[Peter]

Duh...

I really hate to ask this, but can someone PLEASE tell me how to unsubscribe
from this list?

Thanks!

ps.  ok, I'll go back to trying to find my car now...

Re: The fuckin list request address is busted out.

[Peter]

Bad News:
Sorry but I am having the same problem, my inbox is getting flooded and I 
recieved the unsubsribe sucessful message over a week ago.  
If only this  was the worst problem I had today, damn if I am going to 
start cussing this excellent list out!!!   :)

Good News:  (maybe:)

I setup a new Linux BBS for promoting Linux at gwbbs.northeast.net
Please telnet in and let me know what you think.

It runs using Slack, but I wanted to switch over to red hat or Debian, 
your opinions would be very much appreciated!!!

Peter
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exim: permission denied

[Peter]

Hello everybody. I'm new to the list, and this is my first time posting 
a question here. Thanks in advance for your patience!
I recently installed woody 2.4 for use as a POP3/SMTP server. I 
configured exim and qpopper. the pop side is working like a dream, but 
I'm having an intermittent SMTP problem. about 1/6 emails returns me a 
mail to the mail admin address with the following (I added the Subject 
and Body for clarity):

Subject:
Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED]   if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; 
then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi

Body:
exim: permission denied
the intermittency of it is one of the most frustrating things. I checked 
permissions for usr/sbin/exim and I can't see anything wrong with them, 
but hey, I'm a noob.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks again,

-Peter

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Re: hi

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This is an autoresponder. I'll never see your message.


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Re (2): POP3 softwares.

[peter]

Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:18:29 +0900
From: Osamu Aoki osamu_aoki_h...@nifty.com
 ??? Why bother with qpopper.  It is a local mbox.

Ideally the one mbox should work, but I'm not sure that the MUA and 
getmail will each respect access by the other.  qpopper will respect  
getmail in access to the mbox and respond to the MUA with POP3. This 
at the cost of a second mbox and delays up to the retrieval interval 
of qpopper.

Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:54:08 +
From: art.is...@yandex.ru
 I'am using popa3d (Tiny POP3 daemon, designed with security as the
 primary goal) and stunnel for SSL on server-side ...

Thanks.  Stunnel appears to be the right answer here.  The example 
in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunnel with substitution of POP3 
for SMTP, is exactly the scenario I've described.

Further, the SMTP example allows the MUA to submit to the remote mail 
server directly rather than through exim4 on localhost.  The whole 
setup is simpler with Stunnel.

From: Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:24:16 +0100
 Move to a MUA which can do SSL/TLS.

If Stunnel fails I'll consider that.

Thanks to everyone for all the feedback,... Peter E.
   
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Re (3): POP3 softwares.

[peter]

From:   Osamu Aoki osamu_aoki_h...@nifty.com
Date:   Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:08:44 +0900
 If qpopper can do it via locking why not make your local MUA to
 do the same.

The MUA lacks locking.  I would have to write it.

 maildrop package comes with lockmail for such need.  (I suspect procmail
 comes with similar util.)  You just have to use such thing.

maildrop or procmail would solve the POP3 requirement.  stunnel is a 
more general solution available to other protocols.  As mentioned 
in the previous message, once stunnel is working the MUA can SMTP in 
Stunnel directly to the remote MTA.  If eventually I can remove exim, 
so much the better.

 Also, use of maildir format instead of mbox avoids locking issue.

The MUA understands mbox and not maildir.

Regards,   ... Peter E.













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bootpd usage and the server address.

[peter]

With this one line in /etc/bootptab, 

root@dalton:~# tail --lines=1 /etc/bootptab
sparc2:sa=172.25.2.1:td=/tftpboot:hd=/:bf=AC190202.SUN4C:rp=/export/sparc2/root/:

bootp complains about the address.

root@dalton:~# bootpd -d9
bootpd: info(6):   bootptab mtime: Sun Jan 26 15:33:54 2014
bootpd: info(6):   reading /etc/bootptab
bootpd: info(6):   read 1 entries (1 hosts) from /etc/bootptab
bootpd: error(3):  bind: Address already in use

Any ideas of what causes this?  How can I find what preempts the address?

Thanks,   ... Peter E.

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Re(2): bootpd usage and the server address.

[peter]

*   From: Darac Marjal difficulty in netbooting the old Sparcstation 2.

Thanks again,   ... Peter E.

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Re(2): bootpd usage and the server address.

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*   From: Darac Marjal difficulty in netbooting the old Sparcstation 2.

Thanks again,   ... Peter E.

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A persistent name for a sound device.

[peter]

I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. 
The output of udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... ) 
follows. 
What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the introductory paragraph? 
Must the first match occur in the first stanza of the info?  Does one single 
parent device allow the direct parent only?  Can the attributes belong to the 
grandparent or great-grandparent?

This is one rule I've tried.  
SUBSYSTEM==sound, ATTRS{idVendor}==0d8c, ATTRS{idProduct}==0008, 
SYMLINK+=USBspeakers
None of my rules have yielded a SYMLINK.

Thanks for any ideas, ... Peter E.

===
root@dalton:/home/peter# udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n 
/dev/snd/by-id/usb-0d8c_C-Media_USB_Audio_Device-00)

Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then
walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device
found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format.
A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device
and the attributes from one single parent device.

  looking at device 
'/devices/pci:00/:00:03.2/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/sound/card3/controlC3':
KERNEL==controlC3
SUBSYSTEM==sound
DRIVER==

  looking at parent device 
'/devices/pci:00/:00:03.2/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/sound/card3':
KERNELS==card3
SUBSYSTEMS==sound
DRIVERS==
ATTRS{id}==Device
ATTRS{number}==3

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:03.2/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0':
KERNELS==5-1:1.0
SUBSYSTEMS==usb
DRIVERS==snd-usb-audio
ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}==00
ATTRS{bAlternateSetting}== 0
ATTRS{bNumEndpoints}==00
ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}==01
ATTRS{bInterfaceSubClass}==01
ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}==00
ATTRS{supports_autosuspend}==1

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:03.2/usb5/5-1':
KERNELS==5-1
SUBSYSTEMS==usb
DRIVERS==usb
ATTRS{configuration}==
ATTRS{bNumInterfaces}== 4
ATTRS{bConfigurationValue}==1
ATTRS{bmAttributes}==a0
ATTRS{bMaxPower}==100mA
ATTRS{urbnum}==8415
ATTRS{idVendor}==0d8c
ATTRS{idProduct}==0008
ATTRS{bcdDevice}==0100
ATTRS{bDeviceClass}==00
ATTRS{bDeviceSubClass}==00
ATTRS{bDeviceProtocol}==00
ATTRS{bNumConfigurations}==1
ATTRS{bMaxPacketSize0}==64
ATTRS{speed}==12
ATTRS{busnum}==5
ATTRS{devnum}==2
ATTRS{devpath}==1
ATTRS{version}== 1.10
ATTRS{maxchild}==0
ATTRS{quirks}==0x0
ATTRS{avoid_reset_quirk}==0
ATTRS{authorized}==1
ATTRS{product}==C-Media USB Audio Device   

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:03.2/usb5':
KERNELS==usb5
SUBSYSTEMS==usb
DRIVERS==usb
ATTRS{configuration}==
ATTRS{bNumInterfaces}== 1
ATTRS{bConfigurationValue}==1
ATTRS{bmAttributes}==e0
ATTRS{bMaxPower}==  0mA
ATTRS{urbnum}==27
ATTRS{idVendor}==1d6b
ATTRS{idProduct}==0001
ATTRS{bcdDevice}==0302
ATTRS{bDeviceClass}==09
ATTRS{bDeviceSubClass}==00
ATTRS{bDeviceProtocol}==00
ATTRS{bNumConfigurations}==1
ATTRS{bMaxPacketSize0}==64
ATTRS{speed}==12
ATTRS{busnum}==5
ATTRS{devnum}==1
ATTRS{devpath}==0
ATTRS{version}== 1.10
ATTRS{maxchild}==2
ATTRS{quirks}==0x0
ATTRS{avoid_reset_quirk}==0
ATTRS{authorized}==1
ATTRS{manufacturer}==Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ohci_hcd
ATTRS{product}==OHCI Host Controller
ATTRS{serial}==:00:03.2
ATTRS{authorized_default}==1

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:03.2':
KERNELS==:00:03.2
SUBSYSTEMS==pci
DRIVERS==ohci_hcd
ATTRS{vendor}==0x1039
ATTRS{device}==0x7001
ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}==0x105b
ATTRS{subsystem_device}==0x0c56
ATTRS{class}==0x0c0310
ATTRS{irq}==22
ATTRS{local_cpus}==
ATTRS{local_cpulist}==0-31
ATTRS{dma_mask_bits}==32
ATTRS{consistent_dma_mask_bits}==32
ATTRS{enable}==1
ATTRS{broken_parity_status}==0
ATTRS{msi_bus}==

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00':
KERNELS==pci:00
SUBSYSTEMS==
DRIVERS==
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Re(2): A persistent name for a sound device.

[peter]

*   From: Scott Ferguson 
 KERNEL==controlC3, ATTRS{idProduct}==0008, ATTRS{id}==Device,
 ATTRS{product}==C-Media USB Audio Device   , SYMLINK+=USBspeakers
 GROUP==sound

Here ATTRS{idProduct} and ATTRS{product} are in the same node and 
you just said one value per parent device.  *)))-{

 It might help if you posted the full path of the udev rule in case that
 (it's name and location) is a problem.

Turns out that this works.

peter@dalton:~$ tail --lines=4 /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
# The USB audio adapter connected to the speakers.
#KERNEL==controlC3, SUBSYSTEMS==sound, SUBSYSTEMS==usb, \
KERNEL==controlC3, \
ATTRS{idProduct}==0008, SYMLINK+=USBspeakers, GROUP=sound

It fails when 'SUBSYSTEMS==sound, SUBSYSTEMS==usb' is included,   
whereas I expected the matching to be a little more efficient.  

 I thought the man page was the best guide, ...

If multiple
keys that match a parent device are specified in a single rule, all
these keys must match at one and the same parent device.

So according to the manual, multiple keys on one device are OK. 
But definitely room for improvement on this topic of matching.

 http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

It explains about matching multiple keys on one device?

In any case, one solution is enough and simpler is better.

Thanks for the help,   ... Peter E.




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/dev/* and ALSA.

[peter]

Now I have /dev/USBspeakers and /dev/USBheadset, and wonder whether 
ALSA can recognize /dev/USBspeakers rather than SiS7012 AC'97 
Sound Controller as the default device.

http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA mentions indexes and /dev/dsp.
No other /dev mentioned.  ALSA indexes predate udev; correct?

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Alsa-sound-6.html mentions /dev/snd/*.
No mention of making a specific /dev/snd/ the default.

Does anyone have a way of configuring a specific /dev as default?

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Re^2: A persistent name for a sound device.

[peter]

Alan,

*   From: Alan Greenberger ine without changing the hardware. 
Does each device always retain its card number across the reboot?
In my case no.  Consequently I can reboot and find that the 
VoIP ring is being sent to the headset.  Not acceptable.

A persistent name remains associated with a specific device 
across a reboot.

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Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

[peter]

*   From: Ralf Mardorf o set up a sound device
 order. 

Exactly the problem.  Udev is well established technology for 
several years but ALSA can not recognize a udev SYMLINK device.  

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Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

[peter]

*   From: Ralf MardorfC-Media USB Headphone Set at 
usb-:00:08.0-3, full spee
d
 3 [Device ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Audio Device
  C-Media USB Audio Device at usb-:00:03.2-1, full speed

If card numbers are assigned randomly and the VoIP sends the ring to 
card 0, then after approximately 25% of reboots, the ring will go to 
the speakers on USB Audio.  After about 75% of reboots the ring will 
go to an inaudible device.  

 IOW you need to use
 
 options snd slots=snd_usb_audio

That will restrict possible output devices to two. 
After approximately 50% of reboots the ring will go to 
the speakers.  Otherwise the ring will go to the headset
which I only wear a fraction of any day.  

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Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

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Re^3: Mutt: SSL Certificate check ... SASL

[peter]

From:   Dan Purgert d...@djph.net
Date:   Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:41:31 -0500
 Because that's how SSL/TLS works. If the server you're attempting to get
 to presents the wrong certificate, then it's assumed that server is not
 who the user intended to get to, and the connection is failed.

Makes perfect sense.

Also, these are the cPanel instructions for configuring the email client.
Secure SSL/TLS Settings
(Recommended)
Username:   pe...@easthope.ca
Password:   Use the email account's password.
Incoming Server:ccx.websitewelcome.com

IMAP: Port 993
POP3: Port 995

Outgoing Server:ccx.websitewelcome.com

SMTP: Port 465

Authentication is required for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.

So, to use TLS, my exim4 should connect to ccx.websitewelcome.com
and the certificate should refer to websitewelcome.com.  And that leads
to the complaint from mutt and your reply.

The cPanel page gives these instructions for in-the-clear access.
Non-SSL Settings
(NOT Recommended)
Username:   pe...@easthope.ca
Password:   Use the email account's password.
Incoming Server:mail.easthope.ca

IMAP: Port 143
POP3: Port 110

Outgoing Server:mail.easthope.ca

SMTP: Port 25

Authentication is required for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.

The only way I can make sense of this is that the instructions are crossed.
TLS access should be to mail.easthope.ca with appropriate certificate.
In-the-clear access should be to ccx.websitewelcome.com with no certificate.

Regards,... Peter E.

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Re: Re^4: Mutt: SSL Certificate check ... SASL

[peter]

From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 19:31:22 +0200
 P.S. could you please not break threads *and* munge the Subject on every 
 reply? 

The limitations in using a Web browser to reply to a mailing list are 
known and documented in 
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#Message_Threading_and_Replying .

If you spot an error there, please correct it or notify me in a private 
message so that I can correct it.

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Re: Mutt: SSL Certificate check ... SASL

[peter]

From: pe...@easthope.ca
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 07:59:02 -0800
 cPanel instructions for configuring the email client.
 Secure SSL/TLS Settings
 (Recommended)
 Username: peter[at]easthope.ca
 Password: Use the email account's password.
 Incoming Server:  ccx.websitewelcome.com
 IMAP: Port 993
 POP3: Port 995
 Outgoing Server:  ccx.websitewelcome.com
 SMTP: Port 465
 Authentication is required for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.

Fortunately Marc Haber was following Pkg-exim4-users.

Marc Haber mh+pkg-exim4-users at zugschlus.de
Fri Mar 14 07:48:57 UTC 2014
 The MX for websitewelcome.com seems to listen on Port 587, offers
 STARTTLS and AUTH PLAIN. I'd guess that setting dc_smarthost to
 websitewelcome.com::587 is going to work. They're using exim as well,
 btw.

Marc Haber mh+pkg-exim4-users at zugschlus.de
Tue Mar 18 07:56:46 UTC 2014
 It [STARTTLS, port 587] is also the recommended way to have a 
 MUA connect to an MTA with authentication.

That solved the problem.  Port 465, which the ISP mentioned, is 
for the older tls-on-connect protocol.  They also support STARTTLS  
but didn't mention it or port 587 in instructions.

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unmount a removable store automatically before xdm logout.

[peter]

~/MP is the mount point for a removable store which contains 
sentinel Mounted.  

~$ mount | grep MP 
/dev/sda1 on /home/peter/MP type ext2 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,user=peter)
peter@dalton:~$ ls -l MP/Mounted
-rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 11 May 25 15:45 MP/Mounted

This is the draft logout script.

~$ cat mylogout
cd /home/peter
if [ -e MP/Mounted ]; then
  if [ $(command lsof -Fn MP) ]; then 
# Files are open.  Abort logout to allow resolution.
exit 1
  ELSE 
umount /home/peter/MP
# sudo is configured to allow this w/o a password.
nohup sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart /tmp/xdm.restart 21 
  fi
fi
exit 0

Not sure that xdm restart should run in the background.  

Any comment welcome.

Thanks,  ... Peter E.

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IEEE 802.11-USB adapters with RTL8187L

[peter]

Hi,

According to https://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x
these inexpensive adapters should work for Wheezy and later.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/171177227057
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/151155525479
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161013787436

Does anyone have an advice or warning before I invest a little 
time and money?  

And an incidental question: has anyone examined an adapter with 
a dish antenna such as the first on the list above.  Without a metalic 
surface the dish can have little effect.  It is a decoy.  There's a metal 
layer under the plastic?

Thanks,  ... Peter E.




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Re: IEEE 802.11-USB adapters with RTL8187L

[peter]

From: Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:06:51 +
 It doesn't _have_ to be metallic - a small dish shaped thing in any material
 that isn't actually RF lossy may show some focussing effect. It also doesn't 
 have
 to be solid - for some RF frequencies, chicken wire with big air holes in it 
 will
 also work correctly. Two biscuit tin lids will make a good enough corner 
 reflector.

Thanks.

From: B lazyvi...@gmx.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:28:37 +0200
 ... check your local regulations for EIRP max power, as 1.5W is way beyond
 most of countries legislations (ie: UE has an EIRP of 100mW).

The relevant limit in Canada and the USA appears to be 1 W.  
http://www.bcwireless.net/moin.cgi/Regulatory#Using_the_Unlicensed_2.4GHz_radio_spectrum
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf01320.html
http://www.afar.net/tutorials/fcc-rules/
(For both Debian and Windows!) 

A laptop marketed in Canada or the USA might be illegal for 
use in Europe, even if Debian is replaced with LiMux?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

Power density should be more pertinent to interference than 
total radiated power.  Location should also be pertinent.  
In an urban location, the neighbour can be a few m away whereas 
in a rural location the neighbour can be half a km away.  
But reference to density and location might introduce unaccepable 
complexity.

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HTML5 = png or HTML5 = jpg.

[peter]

Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a 
pixel map?  Conversion should apply on text, tables, images 
and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5.

rsvg restricts the source to SVG.  What I want is similar 
to a screen grab of iceweasel.  But invoked by a command 
specifying the height and width of the image and not 
including the menus and scroll bars of the browser.

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Re: HTML5 = png or HTML5 = jpg.

[peter]

*   From: gianuberto.la...@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri)
*   Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:08:11 +0200
 Does The Gimp do what you need?

Should work by command line.  I hadn't considered it.

*   From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com
*   Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:32:37 +0400
  ... cutycapt ...
  
Probably the simplest package for the task.

*   From: orang Aumori Jepun mahu_bere...@yahoo.co.jp
*   Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 21:36:34 +0900 (JST)
 CasperJS might help you with the proper useragent setting.

Seems I should learn about headless browsers.

Thanks to everyone for the responses.  I'm back on track.

Regards, ... Peter E.

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Re (2): HTML5 = png or HTML5 = jpg.

[peter]

From:   Weaver wea...@riseup.net
Date:   Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:28:35 -0700
 ... what's wrong with just getting a screengrab,
 then trimming it through the 'tolls' menu in GIMP. Then save it in your
 preferred format.

For one or two pixel maps, yes.  In fact gimp  File  Create 
 From Webpage opens the document without using a browser.

I might have explaned more about the requirement.  There is 
one HTML5 document.  From this, 14 pixel maps are created; 
then inserted back into the document.  Revisions of the 
primary document are expected.  If a revision affects the 
pixel maps they should be recreated and inserted again into 
the document.  So I want the process of creating and 
inserting pixel maps to be as automated as possible.  
Ideally it should be done by execution of just one script. 
Certainly creation of the pixel maps should be automated. 
Not sure I'll automate the insertion.

In case anyone is interested, the incomplete document is 
visible.  http://easthope.ca/Category2.html

Regards,  ... Peter E.

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a SYMLINK for a sound device.

[peter]

Hi again,

According to 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udev#Writing_udev_rules
and 
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changing_card_IDs_with_udev
I've added these lines to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules .

 root@dalton:/home/peter# tail --lines=6 /etc/udev/rules.d/10*
SUBSYSTEM!=sound, GOTO=my_usb_audio_end
ACTION!=add, GOTO=my_usb_audio_end
KERNEL==card2, ATTRS{product}==C-Media USB Headphone Set  , \
 SYMLINK+=Headset
LABEL=my_usb_audio_end

Still the SYMLINK is not created.

root@dalton:/home/peter# udevadm trigger
root@dalton:/home/peter# ls /dev/H*
ls: cannot access /dev/H*: No such file or directory
root@dalton:/home/peter# 

 Any ideas?  Thanks,   ... P.
 
 ==
root@dalton:/home/peter# udevadm info -a -p 
/devices/pci:00/:00:08.0/usb6/6-3/6-3:1.0/sound/card2

Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then
walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device
found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format.
A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device
and the attributes from one single parent device.

  looking at device 
'/devices/pci:00/:00:08.0/usb6/6-3/6-3:1.0/sound/card2':
KERNEL==card2
SUBSYSTEM==sound
DRIVER==
ATTR{id}==Set
ATTR{number}==2

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:08.0/usb6/6-3/6-3:1.0':
KERNELS==6-3:1.0
SUBSYSTEMS==usb
DRIVERS==snd-usb-audio
ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}==00
ATTRS{bAlternateSetting}== 0
ATTRS{bNumEndpoints}==00
ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}==01
ATTRS{bInterfaceSubClass}==01
ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}==00
ATTRS{supports_autosuspend}==1

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:08.0/usb6/6-3':
KERNELS==6-3
SUBSYSTEMS==usb
DRIVERS==usb
ATTRS{configuration}==
ATTRS{bNumInterfaces}== 4
ATTRS{bConfigurationValue}==1
ATTRS{bmAttributes}==a0
ATTRS{bMaxPower}==100mA
ATTRS{urbnum}==71
ATTRS{idVendor}==0d8c
ATTRS{idProduct}==000c
ATTRS{bcdDevice}==0100
ATTRS{bDeviceClass}==00
ATTRS{bDeviceSubClass}==00
ATTRS{bDeviceProtocol}==00
ATTRS{bNumConfigurations}==1
ATTRS{bMaxPacketSize0}==64
ATTRS{speed}==12
ATTRS{busnum}==6
ATTRS{devnum}==4
ATTRS{devpath}==3
ATTRS{version}== 1.10
ATTRS{maxchild}==0
ATTRS{quirks}==0x0
ATTRS{avoid_reset_quirk}==0
ATTRS{authorized}==1
ATTRS{product}==C-Media USB Headphone Set  

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:08.0/usb6':
KERNELS==usb6
SUBSYSTEMS==usb
DRIVERS==usb
ATTRS{configuration}==
ATTRS{bNumInterfaces}== 1
ATTRS{bConfigurationValue}==1
ATTRS{bmAttributes}==e0
ATTRS{bMaxPower}==  0mA
ATTRS{urbnum}==90
ATTRS{idVendor}==1d6b
ATTRS{idProduct}==0001
ATTRS{bcdDevice}==0302
ATTRS{bDeviceClass}==09
ATTRS{bDeviceSubClass}==00
ATTRS{bDeviceProtocol}==00
ATTRS{bNumConfigurations}==1
ATTRS{bMaxPacketSize0}==64
ATTRS{speed}==12
ATTRS{busnum}==6
ATTRS{devnum}==1
ATTRS{devpath}==0
ATTRS{version}== 1.10
ATTRS{maxchild}==3
ATTRS{quirks}==0x0
ATTRS{avoid_reset_quirk}==0
ATTRS{authorized}==1
ATTRS{manufacturer}==Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ohci_hcd
ATTRS{product}==OHCI Host Controller
ATTRS{serial}==:00:08.0
ATTRS{authorized_default}==1

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00/:00:08.0':
KERNELS==:00:08.0
SUBSYSTEMS==pci
DRIVERS==ohci_hcd
ATTRS{vendor}==0x1033
ATTRS{device}==0x0035
ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}==0x9005
ATTRS{subsystem_device}==0x0012
ATTRS{class}==0x0c0310
ATTRS{irq}==17
ATTRS{local_cpus}==
ATTRS{local_cpulist}==0-31
ATTRS{dma_mask_bits}==32
ATTRS{consistent_dma_mask_bits}==32
ATTRS{enable}==1
ATTRS{broken_parity_status}==0
ATTRS{msi_bus}==

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00':
KERNELS==pci:00
SUBSYSTEMS==
DRIVERS==

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Re: HTML5 = png or HTML5 = jpg.

[peter]

From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:20:37 -0400
 How is the document revised? 

Text editor.

 is the HTML5 document always served by a web server, or 
 can it be loaded from a file?

It is self-contained and can come from a file or from a server.

 ... put a couple of comment lines in the file - one
 before the images and one after the images.  Then have your script
 search for those comment lines and replace everything between them with
 the contents of the new file.

For the text manipulations, can you recommend AWK, Perl, sed or another?

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mgetty

[peter]

Is anyone using mgetty in wheezy or later?  Here in Wheezy 
it will start interactively and transmit an FTP directory. 
The process dies when transmission of a file is attempted. 
inittab fails to start it successfully.  

A few releases back, there was no problem.

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TP-link TL-WN722N with Squeeze

[peter]

Squeeze, with kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-686, is working on 
an old Compaq Armada E500.  The wheezy installer gave a black 
screen.

According to apt and aptitude, linux-image-2.6-686-pae and 
linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae are available; attempted 
installation of either leads to a conflict of dependancies.  
Can linux-image-2.6.32 or 3.2.0 be installed while leaving 
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 intact for fallback.

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kernel upgrade in squeeze; was Re: TP-link TL-WN722N with Squeeze

[peter]

*   From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com
*   Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:32:32 +0300
 ... complete output from running apt-get ...

root@armada:/home/peter# apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686-pae
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-2.6-686-pae : Depends: linux-image-686-pae but it is not going to 
be installed
E: Broken packages
root@armada:/home/peter# 

2.6.32 is already running and was reinstalled since the original installation.  
The preceding makes no sense.

root@armada:/home/peter# apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae : Depends: linux-base (= 3~) but 
2.6.32-48squeeze6 is to be installed
 Recommends: firmware-linux-free (= 3~) 
but 2.6.32-48squeeze6 is to be installed
 Breaks: initramfs-tools ( 0.99~) but 
0.98.8 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@armada:/home/peter# 

 What does this have to do with the TP-Link in the subject?

The driver for the Atheros AR9170 chipset in the TP-Link isn't working 
with the 2.6.32 kernel; upgrade seemed a reasonable approach.  For the 
subject, my train of thought went off the rails.

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SRA, secure remote access?

[peter]

In a NetBSD system, 
$ telnet localhost 
  ...
Trying SRA secure login:
User (me):
Password: 
[ SRA accepts you ]
$

Helpful documentation about SRA hasn't turned up.

In a Debian system on the local network this happens.

$ telnet netbsdsystem
Trying 172.25.2.2...
Connected to netbsdsystem.invalid.
Escape character is '^]'.
telnetd: Authorization failed.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Can Debian support this telnet SRA login to another system?  

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configuration of LightDM

[peter]

Hello again,

This refers to a Sharp Mebius laptop with current Wheezy.

https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM instructs 
To change the current default Display Manager, run dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

root@mebius:~# dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
[] Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to syste
m message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No
such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action reload failed.
root@mebius:~#

Several bug reports and messages have intersecting words.  Any ideas or tips 
before I start reading?

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user authentication for a secure laptop.

[peter]

In wheezy, is there a routine means of allowing login on 
the machine itself without a password, while keeping traditional 
password authentication for any remote login.  From a superficial 
understanding of PAM, I'd guess that it can provide this capability.

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Re: user authentication for a secure laptop.

[peter]

 Do you mean using fingerprints as local authentication??

Authentication isn't necessary.  An example is the olpc 
system on the XO machines.  Power up and the X interface 
for user olpc is available.  Most cell phones are similar.

 Do you mean passphrase authenticated remote logins?

password =? passphrase.  If so, then yes.

 It depends on your definition of secure.

I am the only person with access to the machine.  It is in my house or in my 
office.

In lightdm this has no apparent effect.
# /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
autologin-user=username
autologin-user-timeout=0

Odd.  Has anyone made autologin work in lightdm?

There is also a package named nodm with this description.
... automatically start an X session at system boot ... for devices like 
smartphones, but can be used on a regular computer ...
After removing *dm and installing nodm, the system still presented a 
dialogue similar to lightdm.  Stock configuration doesn't give the stated 
effect.  Likely an adjustment is needed.

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autologin; was Re: user authentication for a secure laptop.

[peter]

From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:06:25 +1100

 xfce4 4.8.0.3
 lightdm  1.2.2-4
 kernel 3.2.0-4-686-pae
 
 /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
 lines 78 and 79
 autologin-user=$yourUserName
 autologin-user-timeout=0

Here,
lxde metapackage 4+nmu1
task-lxde-desktop 3.14.1
lightdm 1.2.2-4
kernel 3.2.0-4-686-pae

Today autologin works immediately with no difficulty.  
In my half-conscious state yesterday, might have neglected 
to save the edit on lightdm.conf before closing.

 make sure the instances you change are *not* the first ones in
 that file - they're just for documentation purposes. 

Caught that yesterday, thanks.  Apart from making the text a little 
more difficult to read, I don't see an advantage to the layout.

From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:16:40 +1100
Message-id: 5445a5e8.3000...@gmail.com
 Given that it's a single user machine - why use a dm at all?

In aptitude, the signal to remove lightdm invokes a dependancy 
conflict with resolutions, Remove task-lxde-desktop or cancel 
removal of lightdm.  For now I want to keep the desktop 
environment and will leave lightdm with autologin.  Eventually 
might ditch the DE.

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/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

[peter]

Until recently

# The black Kingston SDHC card.
KERNEL==mmcblk?p1, ATTR{size}==7626752, SYMLINK+=BlackSDHC1, \
 OWNER=peter, GROUP=users

in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules produced /dev/BlackSDHC1.
Now that doesn't work although, if the part is labeled, it 
is automounted at /media/label.

No error message appears with interactive udevadm trigger.
No error message is visible in /var/log/syslog.

Ideas?  Thanks,  ... Peter E.

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Re (2): /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

[peter]

From:   shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com
Date:   Sun, 2 Nov 2014 21:49:57 -0500
 Everything must match the same set.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udev#Writing_udev_rules
under Writing udev rules states,
A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device 
and the attributes from one single parent device.

Assuming your set is an Archlinux device, the inclusion of an attribute 
from the parent could be crucial.  If, for example, two devices have the 
same ATTR{size}, then ATTRS=={serial} should distinguish.

 Of course not - the rule is structured correctly and it could match for
 another device.

On one machine I had KERNEL==mmcblk? rather than mmcblk?p1.
On another machine the number for ATTR{size} was wrong.

It works now.  Thanks for the reply,... Peter E.

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Qemu host drive basics.

[peter]

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#sec_005finvocation
contains,
`-fda file'
  ...
You can use the host floppy by using `/dev/fd0' as filename ...

Therefore take any diskette which the bare PC can boot from and
try to boot the virtual machine from it.

Here fd0 twitches; then an error.
peter@armada:~$ sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a
qemu-system-i386: -fda /dev/fd0: could not open disk image /dev/fd0:
Input/output error

I/o error?  Certainly it is read/writable.

peter@armada:~$ ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 2, 0 Nov 17 16:44 /dev/fd0

Can anyone make the virtual machine boot from a real boot diskette?

Thanks, ... Peter E.

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Re: Qemu host drive basics.

[peter]

From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:26:06 -0600
 It is rw only for the root user and members of the floppy group.  Is
 peter a member of the floppy group?  Use the 'group' command to find
 out.

No group command but peter is in the floppy group.

root@armada:/home/peter# which group
root@armada:/home/peter# grep floppy /etc/group
floppy:x:25:peter

Thanks,   ... P.

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Re: Qemu host drive basics.

[peter]

From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:20:48 -0600
 ... should have been 'groups peter'.  

peter@armada:~$ groups peter
peter : peter adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev 

Group membership is OK.  

If I am not permitted to read the floppy, the drive motor 
shouldn't twitch immediately after the qemu command. 
Therefore I conclude that permissions aren't blocking access.
 
As mentioned originally, the machine will cold boot from 
the diskette.  More detail from qemu would help but there 
is no -v option to increase verbosity.  The man page has 
no mention of a log file.

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Re: Qemu host drive basics.

[peter]

From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:15:18 -0600
 I'm curious if you can read the floppy directory contents using the
 'mdir' command from the mtools package?  If you can do that as peter,
 then  that may point to a problem with qemu.  Just a thought.

This is for a MS-DOS 5.0 installer diskette.

peter@armada:/media/floppy0$ mdir
 Volume in drive A is DISK  1
 Volume Serial Number is 0C74-0EEB
Directory for A:/

COMMAND  COM 47845 1991-11-11   5:00 
AUTOEXEC BAT36 1991-11-11   5:00 
CONFIG   SYS13 1991-11-11   5:00 
COUNTRY  SYS 17069 1991-11-11   5:00 
EGA  SY_  4107 1991-11-11   5:00 
FORMAT   COM 33087 1991-11-11   5:00 
KEYB COM 14986 1991-11-11   5:00 
KEYBOARD SYS 34697 1991-11-11   5:00 
NLSFUNC  EXE  7052 1991-11-11   5:00 
SETUPEXE 73860 1991-11-11   5:00 
SETUPINI  1975 1991-11-11   5:00 
CV   COM   716 1991-11-11   5:00 
README   1ST   452 1991-11-11   5:00 
DISPLAY  SY_ 11186 1991-11-11   5:00 
EGA  CP_ 19714 1991-11-11   5:00 
HIMEMSY_  7916 1991-11-11   5:00 
MODE CO_ 16834 1991-11-11   5:00 
SETVER   EX_  7448 1991-11-11   5:00 
ANSI SY_  7185 1991-11-11   5:00 
DEBUGEX_ 16898 1991-11-11   5:00 
EDLINEX_ 10441 1991-11-11   5:00 
EMM386   EX_ 47605 1991-11-11   5:00 
FASTOPEN EX_  8927 1991-11-11   5:00 
FDISKEXE 57224 1991-11-11   5:00 
MEM  EX_ 29726 1991-11-11   5:00 
MIRROR   CO_ 12811 1991-11-11   5:00 
RAMDRIVE SY_  3765 1991-11-11   5:00 
SHAREEX_  9312 1991-11-11   5:00 
SMARTDRV SY_  6295 1991-11-11   5:00 
SYS  CO_  9672 1991-11-11   5:00 
UNDELETE EX_  9399 1991-11-11   5:00 
UNFORMAT COM 18576 1991-11-11   5:00 
XCOPYEX_ 11879 1991-11-11   5:00 
DOSKEY   CO_  4730 1991-11-11   5:00 
8514 VI_  7305 1991-11-11   5:00 
CGA  GR_  1768 1991-11-11   5:00 
CGA  IN_  3330 1991-11-11   5:00 
CGA  VI_  6920 1991-11-11   5:00 
DOSSHELL CO_  2231 1991-11-11   5:00 
DOSSHELL EX_156431 1991-11-11   5:00 
DOSSWAP  EX_ 15492 1991-11-11   5:00 
EGA  GR_  2729 1991-11-11   5:00 
EGA  IN_   1991-11-11   5:00 
EGA  VI_  7012 1991-11-11   5:00 
EGAMONO  GR_  2564 1991-11-11   5:00 
HERC GR_  1809 1991-11-11   5:00 
HERC VI_  6998 1991-11-11   5:00 
MONO GR_   301 1991-11-11   5:00 
MONO IN_  2990 1991-11-11   5:00 
PACKING  LST  2381 1991-11-11   5:00 
PRINTEX_ 11061 1991-11-11   5:00 
VGA  GR_  3593 1991-11-11   5:00 
VGA  VI_  7236 1991-11-11   5:00 
VGAMONO  GR_  3605 1991-11-11   5:00 
APPNOTES TXT  8369 1991-11-11   5:00 
DOSHELP  HL_  2844 1991-11-11   5:00 
DOSSHELL HL_ 54344 1991-11-11   5:00 
EDIT HL_ 17419 1991-11-11   5:00 
HELP EX_  8534 1991-11-11   5:00 
RECOVER  EX_  7561 1991-11-11   5:00 
DOS  DIR 1996-09-01   8:24 
   61 files 911 598 bytes
456 192 bytes free

 Perhaps using dd to make a raw image of the floppy and having qemu boot
 from that may be an alternative.

There are two bootable diskettes here.  One is the MS-DOS 5.0 
installer which gives the mdir above.  The other is an 
Oberon0 installer.  Machines here cold boot from each. 
The qemu virtual system boots from each image. 
sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda ~/disketteImageFile -vga std -boot a

The qemu virtual system fails to boot from each diskette 
as a host device. 
sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a

A bug report is warranted.  

Thanks for the help,   ... Peter E.


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automation of xrandr

[peter]

https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
helped to establish a usable multi-screen configuration.

Now what is the recommendation to automate?  Put the 
xrandr command in .profile?  

Odd that the wiki page has no mention of this question.

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Re: automation of xrandr

[peter]

From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:55:59 +
 I'd be thinking in terms of putting the command in a ~/.xsessionrc.

OK; it needn't even be session specific really.  One of these might work.

peter@dalton:~$ grep -e -layout -e -config /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
# xserver-layout = Layout to pass to X server
# xserver-config = Config file to pass to X server
#xserver-layout=
#xserver-config=
  
Or the contemporary solution; buy a big flat display.
  
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-cpu option of qemu

[peter]

man qenu has, 
-cpu ? for list and additional feature selection.

Here,
peter@armada:~$ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ?
Unable to find x86 CPU definition

How should CPU definitions be provided? 
Is there a package to install?

Thanks,Peter E.
 
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Re: -cpu option of qemu

[peter]

From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 23:15:56 +0300
 Do you have the file such as /etc/qemu/target-x86_64.conf?

No.  Not even /etc/qemu/.  Now I've removed qemu and qemu-system 
and installed qemu-system-x86.  That left an empty target-x86_64.conf.

 What does change if you add to /etc/qemu/target-x86_64.conf strings
 from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652281#17 ?

After adding the cited lines to define Nehalem, this.

peter@armada:~$ qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /home/peter/MY/*.iso -boot d
qemu-system-x86_64:/etc/qemu/target-x86_64.conf:4: There is no option group 
'cpudef'

More than those lines must be needed in the file.  Too late to investigate 
further.

Thanks for the help,  ... Peter E.

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Re: automation of xrandr.

[peter]

From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:55:59 +
 I'd be thinking in terms of putting the command in a ~/.xsessionrc.

In one system that works with no problems.   

peter@dalton:~$ cat .xsessionrc
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x960 --rate 85.0
xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto --right-of VGA-0

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Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

[peter]

A CRT monitor and an IBM flat monitor are connected to a Matrox G450  
adapter.  Both monitors display the command line interface.  With X 
running, the monitor on output 1 is active; the monitor on output 2 
indicates absence of signal.  If the monitors are swapped across the 
output connectors, output 2 continues to indicate absence of a signal 
while output 1 works.  From that I conclude that the monitors are OK.

* Do the following reports help to localize the problem to the video 
adapter or to software?  
* Failed to get size of gamma for output default?
* Other ideas?

Thanks,... Peter E.

 = 
peter@joule:~$ lspci -v -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G400/G450
 (rev 85) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. Millennium G450 32Mb SDRAM Du
al Head
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at f200 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at fe9fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at fe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
Expansion ROM at fe9c [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: access denied
Kernel driver in use: matrox_w1

peter@joule:~$ lsmod | grep matrox
matrox_w1  12547  0
wire   19207  1 matrox_w1
peter@joule:~$ lsmod | grep mga
mga26157  1 
drm   146387  2 mga

peter@joule:~$ xrandr
Can't open display

peter@joule:~$ xrandr -d :0
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768   87.0*75.0 85.0 60.0 70.0  
   832x62475.0  
   800x60085.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0  
   840x52560.0  
   700x52560.0  
   640x51260.0  
   720x45060.0  
   640x48085.0 75.0 67.0 60.0 73.0  
   720x40070.0 85.0  
   680x38460.0  
   640x40085.0  
   576x43275.0 70.0 60.0  
   640x35085.0  
   512x38487.0 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0  
   416x31275.0  
   400x30085.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0  
   320x24085.0  
   360x20085.0  
peter@joule:~$ xrandr -d :1
Can't open display :1

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Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

[peter]

From: Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:37:09 -0500
 Is this in a desktop machine?
 Can you remove the board?
 If so, is there a window nearby?
 Then, open the window and throw that board out. :)

Will aim for a recycling bin about 2 km distant.

 Older nVidia boards, ten times as capable as that Matrox device, go for $20, 
 or less, all day long.

Will see what else was donated.

From: Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:19:45 +0100
 So, please, put this graphics card to rest and just use a cheap, fanless
 Nvidia or ATI ...

See above.

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shell script removing log files.

[peter]

This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files.

for i in $( echo *.Log ); do 
  /bin/rm $i; 
  echo Removed $i. 
done

In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains.
/bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such file or directory

If echo is replaced with ls, it complains when there 
is no match.

Does anyone have a tidy solution for this task?

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bind mount

[peter]

This line in /etc/fstab allows bind mounting, except that 
the user option has no effect.
/usr/bin/aos /home/usr/.aoshome none bind,user

There is no simple way to allow a user?

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Re: bind mount

[peter]

From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:51:47 +0200
 What are you trying to accomplish?

Mount a directory on a directory.  Scroll down to --bind.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

Seems odd that ordinary mounts are available to users but bind is 
only for root.

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Re: bind mount

[peter]

From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:01:37 -0500
 I think what Andrei meant is asking what you're trying to accomplish by
 bind-mounting the one directory on the other as an ordinary user. That
 is, what is the problem to which you are attempting to apply this as a
 solution?

Oops; sorry.  An ext filesystem allows a link.  A FAT f.s. doesn't but a 
directory 
where the target is bind mounted is a useable substitute.  Inconvenient 
that the bind mount requires root. 

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Re: bind mount

[peter]

From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:01:37 -0500
 I think what Andrei meant is asking what you're trying to accomplish by
 bind-mounting the one directory on the other as an ordinary user. That
 is, what is the problem to which you are attempting to apply this as a
 solution?

Oops; sorry.  An ext filesystem allows a link.  A FAT f.s. doesn't but a 
directory 
where the target is bind mounted is a useable substitute.  Inconvenient 
that the bind mount requires root. 

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stopping a problematic process.

[peter]

Suppose 
  strace LooseCannon 
produces 100 k lines of output but the user is primarily 
interested to see the first 1 k lines.  
  strace LooseCannon | head --lines=1000
might work but waste time and resources.  How can the 
process be stopped without losing the strace output and 
before excessive waste?

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mounting a labeled filesystem

[peter]

peter@dalton:~$ grep GRN /etc/fstab
LABEL=GRNSDHC41 /home/peter/GR auto defaults,noauto,user,users 0 0

peter@dalton:~$ mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41
mount: must be superuser to use mount
peter@dalton:~$ sudo mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41
[sudo] password for peter: 
peter@dalton:~$ mount | grep GR
/dev/sda1 on /home/peter/GR type ext2 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl)

Does anyone have a clever way to allow a user to mount a storage 
part containing a labeled filesystem without giving a password?

Thanks,   ... Peter E.
 
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mounting a labeled filesystem

[peter]

peter@dalton:~$ grep GRN /etc/fstab
LABEL=GRNSDHC41 /home/peter/GR auto defaults,noauto,user,users 0 0

peter@dalton:~$ mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41
mount: must be superuser to use mount
peter@dalton:~$ sudo mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41
[sudo] password for peter: 
peter@dalton:~$ mount | grep GR
/dev/sda1 on /home/peter/GR type ext2 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl)

Does anyone have a clever way to allow a user to mount a storage 
part containing a labeled filesystem without giving a password?

Thanks,   ... Peter E.
 
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Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

[peter]

 IMAP allows retrieving a message, and IMAP allows deleting a message, so
 this can certainly be done. (As long as the server actually respects the
 delete command, rather than archiving on delete or something like that,
 but that would be server-specific.)
 ...
 I imagine that various other mail clients also provide sufficiently
 capable message-filtering or other scripting functionality. No direct
 support for this by IMAP itself should be necessary.

Thanks.  After some exporation and trial  error with the client it work nicely,

Thanks again,   ... Peter E.
 
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Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

[peter]

*   From: Andrei POPESCU em concurrently.  Someone might 
work with a smartphone and a desktop system concurrently for 
example.  IMAP is useful there.

In a simpler but similar case, an mbox file can be on a flash 
storage card which is shifted from one machine to another not
too frequently.  Then POP3 suffices to retrieve messages to the 
mbox.  If a client system has only IMAP, the question of simulating 
POP3 arises.

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Re: apt-offline usage

[peter]

*   From: franc...@avalenn.eu
*   Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100
 isolated$ apt-offline set --install-packages $package
 networked$ apt-offline get ...
 isolated$ apt-offline install ...
 isolated$ apt-get install $package

That works.  Thanks!

An optimistic reader might take man apt-offline to mean 
that apt-offline install will install the package.  The 
example should include the apt-get install.

Thanks again,   ... Peter E.

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Re: apt-offline usage

[peter]

*   From: franc...@avalenn.eu
*   Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100
 isolated$ apt-offline set --install-packages $package
 networked$ apt-offline get ...
 isolated$ apt-offline install ...
 isolated$ apt-get install $package

Yes; that works.  Thanks!

An optimistic reader might take man apt-offline to mean 
that apt-offline install will install the package.  The 
example could include apt-get install.

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svn, subversion, repos

[peter]

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.create.html has 

$ # Create a repository
$ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos
$

In wheezy this fails of course.  Is /var writeable by users in 
any widely used Linux?

peter@dalton:/var$ svnadmin create svn/repos
svnadmin: Repository creation failed
svnadmin: Could not create top-level directory
svnadmin: Can't create directory 'svn/repos': No such file or directory

No mention of repos in /usr/share/doc/subversion/README.Debian.
Nothing obvious in wiki.debian.org.
Nothing in https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html.

Is there a common practise in Debian?  Write permission on /var? 
repos in /home/user/?

Thanks,  ... Peter E.

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Subject: Re: svn, subversion, repos

[peter]

From: Frédéric Marchal frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:28:10 +0100
 I store the repositories in /var/svn/repos to make them available for 
 browsing 
 ... 
 On my server, the repositories can only be created by root. 
 ... 

All very helpful.  Thanks.

 If you want to let users administer the svn repositories, ...

The repos here are only for personal use.

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Re: apt-offline usage

[peter]

From:   Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz
Date:   Sat, 7 Mar 2015 01:36:50 +1300
 If you are only going to install one package, why not just 
 download the deb file and use dpkg to install it?

When apt-offline is being used to update a system and 
an additional package is needed, --install is efficacious.

Also, apt-offline claims to solve dependancies automatically.
peter@armada:~$ man apt-offline | grep depend
   based system.  It can be used to download packages and its dependencies

 The tip I can offer is follow the directions. 

See above.

Regards,   ... Peter E.

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upgrade versus update.

[peter]

I get that dist-upgrade is the replacement of a distribution 
by the subsequent distribution.  Replacement of wheezy by jessie 
for example.  What is meant by upgrade?  In many places it
appears to be synonymous with update.

For example, googling site:debian.org update upgrade yields, 
https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades 
Running unattended-upgrades:
Its[sic] purpose is to keep the computer current with the latest security 
(and other) updates automatically.

Regards,  ... Peter E.

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starting mgetty

[peter]

Traditionally, mgetty was started with a line such as this in /etc/inittab.
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1

Not working in wheezy and this seems relevant.

From: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:15:32 -0800
Message-id: 20150222191532.gm6...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
 1. The CTTE determined in #727708 that systemd should be the default
init system in Debian. 

Also
root@dalton:~# dpkg -l | grep systemd
ii  libsystemd-login0:i386   44-11+deb7u4   
i386 systemd login utility library

But
root@dalton:~# ls /bin/systemd
ls: cannot access /bin/systemd: No such file or directory

The mgetty documents don't help.  How should mgetty be started 
automatically these days?

Thanks,  ... Peter E.

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ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload; was Re: mounting a labeled filesystem.

[peter]

*   From: Darac Marjal /etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY)  = 3
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 3
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 3
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsepol.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 3

ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload in /etc?

According to https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html
libraries belong in /lib or in /usr/lib.  

Does anyone recognize this problem?

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user mounting a filesystem; was Re: ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload; was Re: mounting a labeled filesystem.

[peter]

From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:31:14 +0300
 In that case a correct way of doing this is:
 
 mount -v LABEL=GRNSDHC41

Output is independent of the -v option.

peter@dalton:~$ mount -v -t ext2 LABEL=GRNSDHC41
mount: only root can do that
peter@dalton:~$ mount-t ext2 LABEL=GRNSDHC41
mount: only root can do that

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Re: ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload; was Re: mounting a labeled filesystem.

[peter]

From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:53:02 +0300
 This is an expected result regardless of what you're trying to achieve.

Trying to understand why I can't mount a filesystem on an SDHC while 
/etc/fstab has the user option.  The details are in the original message here. 
E1YAfor-0002T2-Qg@dalton.invalid 

 This strace output shows that there are no such files there (ENOENT
 means exactly this).

OK.  At first I took the absence of ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload to be 
an error.  Apparently not.  So I'll reconsider the problem.

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apt-offline usage

[peter]

On isolated machine, joule.
peter@joule:~$ apt-offline set aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose --update  \
  --install-packages rsync  

On networked machine, armada.
peter@armada:~$ apt-offline get aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose  \
  --bundle aptoffline.joule.bundle 

On joule again.
peter@joule:~$ apt-offline install aptoffline.joule.bundle --verbose  \
  --allow-unauthenticated 
  ...
peter@joule:~$ which rsync
peter@joule:~$ 

Has anyone had any luck using apt-offline to install a package?
Any tips?

Thanks,   ... Peter E.


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Re: starting mgetty

[peter]

From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:49:35 +0300
 Are you trying to setup a dial-up old fashioned way?

PPP over a serial crossover cable between two machines.  

If mgetty is started interactively by root, PPP works, including PAP.
I haven't found any effect when the mgetty command is in /etc/inittab. 

 In Debian it's customary to use getty for the serial console. 

mgetty provides the ringback protocol.  For years that allowed dialin 
to a modem on ttyS0.  The crossover cable with PPP was on ttyS1.

For now I can live with the interactive connection startup.

Thanks,  ... Peter E.

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Re: starting mgetty

[peter]

From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:24:30 -0600
 Fun retro!  :-)

For sure.  What's old is new again.
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/SourcesVerilog/RS232T.v

 What clues are found in the mgetty debug log file?

I won't be at the site again for a few days.  As I recall, nothing 
pertinent in /var/log/mgetty .  As if mgetty wasn't invoked.  

 Try cranking up the debug level.   

Nothing from that.

 Do you have it connected to a modem?

A modem is on ttyS0 and the serial crossover on ttyS1.

 If not then do you have -r to avoid the modem initialization?

Yes, the crossover connection is data only.  Both connections worked 
a few years back.

From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:27:02 -0600
 I assume Peter is having ppp on one end login to the other end at the
 login: prompt as the ppp user which starts up the pppd as the login
 shell on the other end.  ... Before ethernet that was quite a common 
 way to network two computers on the local site.

Exactly.  In absence of a driver for an Ethernet adapter, serial crossover 
with PPP is quite effective.  After starting mgetty interactively, the 
required files were moved across.  The problem is not an immediate 
concern but would be nice to solve for future use.

Thanks,... Peter E.

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Re: apt-offline usage

[peter]

From: franc...@avalenn.eu
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100
 If I remember correctly but this is from memory from 3 or 4 years ago
 it is possible to need two round-trip between networked and isolated
 server :
 
 isolated$ apt-offline set --update ...
 networked$ apt-offline get ...
 isolated$ apt-offline install
 isolated$ apt-offline set --install $package ...
 networked$ apt-offline get ...
 isolated$ apt-offline install ...
 isolated$ apt-get install $package

That installs $package with no difficulty.  Good!  Thanks!

My understanding is that apt-offline install filename.bundle 
upgrades the cache of data needed for the upgrade but doesn't 
perform the upgrade.  

apt-get install package upgrades a specific package.
To upgrade all packages available from the bundle I tried apt-get install *.  
* is expanded to files and directories in the current directory. 
Definitely not the intention. 

apt-get upgrade attempts to access network sources
which also is not the intention.  How is an upgrade 
from the local cache invoked?

Thanks,  ... P.


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Re: apt-offline usage

[peter]

From: franc...@avalenn.eu
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:55:01 +0200
  isolated$ apt-offline set --update ...
  networked$ apt-offline get ...
  isolated$ apt-offline install
  isolated$ apt-offline set --upgrade ...
  networked$ apt-offline get ...
  isolated$ apt-offline install ...
  isolated$ apt-get upgrade

Appears OK until apt-get upgrade.  For example;

root@joule:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree  
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@joule:/# dpkg -l openssl
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   Version  Architecture Description
+++-==---=
ii  openssl1.0.1e-2+deb i386 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary

Whereas a newer deb file certainly is available locally.

root@joule:/# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/open*
/var/cache/apt/archives/openssl_1.0.1k-3_i386.deb

I've found no mention of sources in any apt-offline documentation.  
For apt-offline set ... and apt-offline get ... sources.list should 
refer to a networked source.  For apt-offline install ... sources.list 
should refer to the local files in isolated:/var/cache/apt/archives/.
No mention of this in the manual.

Regards, ... Peter E.

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Re (2): VoIP in jessie

[peter]

*   From: Ric Moore c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:0
ALSA lib conf.c:4705:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:0
ALSA lib conf.c:4705:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 1
ALSA lib control.c:953:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:1
ALSA lib conf.c:4705:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 1
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:1
ALSA lib conf.c:4705:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 1
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:1
Segmentation fault
peter@dalton:~$

Might help to set the CTL default to 1.  Will try baresip before more 
of this.

Thanks for the suggestion, ... Peter E.


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Re (2): VoIP in jessie

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Iceweasel audio

[peter]

From: Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:30:19 +0200
 After starting the broadcast, ...

Subtle faults can prevent this from working.  Here 
mozplugger wasn't installed and is now.

Iceweasel is displaying http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/past-episodes/ .
The Tools  Web Developer  Browser Console is open.
If the play icon or Listen is clicked, I expect to see something 
relevant in the Console.  All that appears are lines similar to 
these.
GET http://ping.chartbeat.net/ping [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 100ms]
GET http://ping.chartbeat.net/ping [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 100ms]

Any ideas to make the Browser Console register the links which 
the browser is tracing?

Thanks,  ... Peter E.

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Catching an audio stream.

[peter]

Hello,

I'm interested in the June 22 program listed on this page.
http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/past-episodes/

Does anyone have a direct way to catch the audio stream 
in a file using software in jessie?

Thanks, ... Peter E.

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Re: Catching an audio stream.

[peter]

From: Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:30:19 +0200
 I could easily get it with the Video DownloadHelper extension in
 Iceweasel.  

Finding and installing the DownloadHelper was easy enough.

 After starting the broadcast, ...

The broadcast won't start.  After a click on the program, nothing happens.
Under Preferences  Applications there is AVI video.  
No mp3.  No mp4.  Iceweasel must need some other extension.  
Or another  package is needed in the system.

Thanks,  ... P.

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Re: Catching an audio stream.

[peter]

From: Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:30:19 +0200
 I could easily get it with the Video DownloadHelper extension in
 Iceweasel.  

Finding and installing the DownloadHelper was easy enough.

 After starting the broadcast, ...

The broadcast won't start.  After a click on the program, nothing happens.
Something is missing.  Under Preferences  Applications there is AVI video.  
No mp3.  No mp4.  Iceweasel must need ome other extension.  
Or another  package is needed in the system.

Thanks,  ... P.

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Re: VoIP in jessie

[peter]

 you should first build the re and rem lib debs and then install them ... 

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ ,
chapters 4, 5 and 6, help to understand how package building works.

 ... (including dev packages).  then build baresip package and install it.

I don't understand how a dev package is built.  libre-dev for example.
There is no -dev option for dpkg-buildpackage.

Thanks,... Peter E.

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VoIP in jessie

[peter]

Can anyone recommend a VoIP for jessie which doesn't 
depend upon pulseaudio?  A VoIP with minimal features 
and dependancies.

In squeeze, Twinkle worked.  In wheezy, linphone worked.  
But Linphone depends upon pulseaudio which appears to be 
the culprit breaking audio in jessie.  Ref. 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487719

Thanks,... Peter E.

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Re: VoIP in jessie

[peter]

*   From: Juha Heinanen xr-xr-x 1 root staff 1052876 May 25 22:47 
/usr/local/lib/libre.so
peter@armada:~$ 

Where do you keep librem.so and etc.?

Thanks again,  ... Peter E.

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Re: VoIP in jessie

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Re: VoIP in jessie

[peter]

*   From: Juha Heinanen le.

root@armada:/home/peter# gdebi baresip-0.4.12/debian/control
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree  
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done

Install Build-Dependencies for source package '' that builds

Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
dpkg-deb: error: `baresip-0.4.12/debian/control' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive baresip-0.4.12/debian/control (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 baresip-0.4.12/debian/control
root@armada:/home/peter#

Any further tips?

Thanks,   ... Peter E.

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Re: display problem from wheezy=>jessie upgrade.

[peter]

From: Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se>, Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:03:27 +0200
> Sounds like this bug: 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768958

Good;  thanks.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768958#10
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768958#15

Regards,       ... Peter E.


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Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

[peter]

I'm confused what specifically is meriting censorship?

Sent from my android device.

-Original Message-
From: Ric Moore 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:21
Subject: Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 01/01/2016 04:47 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
  I looked at the first twenty or so
> images in the list, and I agree that the general point of view is very
> much one that treats people as objects. I would not want my children
> finding those when looking for clipart.
>
> In my opinion, a complaint is justified here. Those should be sorted
> out into a separate package, at minimum.

I looked at the first 100 and found nothing meriting censorship. Ric


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Failure of evince to open a PDF.

[peter]

Updated a jessie system this morning.  Then tried evince.

  evince afile.pdf

  A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open.
"Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf".
File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported

OK, but the command is not to open an HTML.  It is "evince afile.pdf".

Does anyone have an explanation or solution?

Thanks,   ... Peter E.

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Debian mirrors broke?

[peter]

Hi folks, 

Yesterday when doing some work with Dockery against Debian 8, when running 
"apt-get update" it kept failing to load and was issuing 404 errors. Is there 
something going on with the mirrors that I need to know about or should I just 
go ahead and try again today?
Sent from my android device.

Re: Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

[peter]

You might want to give Codero http://www.codero.com a look. Very responsive 
service, good pricing. 

Sent from my android device.

USB Mass Storage Class

[peter]

For years, when a Sony MYLO was connected by a USB cable, 
it was recognized as a storage device, a name was assigned 
by udev, the MYLO display indicated "Mass Storage Class" 
and camera image files were visible in and retrievable to 
Debian Jessie.  Since an update of Jessie about mid-March, 
the device is no longer visible.  Appears the kernel fails 
to detect the MYLO when connected.  

Disk drives, an SD card in a USB adapter and a USB stick are 
all recognized as always.

Ideas?  Thanks,  ... Peter E.

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Re: USB Mass Storage Class

[peter]

From: <to...@tuxteam.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 22:43:21 +0200
What does dmesg | tail say just after having inserted the camera?

root@dalton:/home/peter# dmesg | tail
[  339.996021] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  340.280019] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  340.560023] usb 5-2: new low-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-pci
[  340.740019] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  341.024053] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  341.304020] usb 5-2: new low-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-pci
[  341.712030] usb 5-2: device not accepting address 5, error -62
[  341.888022] usb 5-2: new low-speed USB device number 6 using ohci-pci
[  342.296022] usb 5-2: device not accepting address 6, error -62
[  342.296062] usb usb5-port2: unable to enumerate USB device
root@dalton:/home/peter# 

Regards,  ... Peter E.



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